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Brad Pitt treated for meningitis
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Posted on 07/13/2005 7:45:31 PM PDT by Huntress
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That sounds pretty scary. Is viral meningitis generally less serious than bacterial meningitis? IIRC, bacterial meningitis often leaves suffers dead or missing limbs.
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:45:31 PM PDT
by
Huntress
To: Huntress
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:46:53 PM PDT
by
Huntress
(Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
To: Huntress
Angelina gave it to him good, LOL!!!!!
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:47:09 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( Bong Hits, Fraggle Rock Reruns and DU is no way to go through Life....)
To: Huntress
It is less severe, but it is no picnic. My wife spent 5 days in the hospital with it.
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:48:21 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
To: Huntress
More joy and diversity from the Third World.
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:48:45 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: StormEye
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:49:32 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: Huntress
Viral meningitis usually is not life-threatening, but he will feel miserable for a while. Bacterial meningitis is a general term, and there are some bacteria which can be devastating to the neurological system as well as other parts of the body. One type that is life-threatening and/or causes loss of limbs is meningococcal, and that isn't from the meningitis; it's from the bacteria disseminating throughout the body via the blood. If you get meningococcal meningitis without it travelling to the blood, it's usually treatable.
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:49:35 PM PDT
by
Born Conservative
("If not us, who? And if not now, when? - Ronald Reagan)
To: Huntress
It depends on the virus. If it's the herpes virus then it's a big deal.
It's no fun either. I had meningitis and encephalitis last November. A week spent in bed with pounding headaches only getting out of bed to throw up. Then my girlfriend found me unconscious in my bathroom and had to call the paramedics. I was, they said, in an extreme state of dementia.
I ended up unconscious for 24 hours, spent 2 days in intensive care, and 5 days total in the hospital. Had to have 2 spinal taps to relieve the pressure.
It took 6 weeks before the last of the headaches went away.
With all the tests, they never did identify the virus.
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:49:36 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(I really, really loathe liberals.)
To: Huntress
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:50:13 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Comment removed by poster before moderator could get to it)
To: umgud
You forgot to add a rimshot with your joke. =)
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:54:47 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: Huntress
reason #534 why I never want to go to africa.
To: Huntress
And he's only just scrached Angelina's infectious surface.
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:58:59 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
(Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
To: flashbunny
Too much mosquitoes...a transmitter of VM.
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posted on
07/13/2005 7:59:15 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: StormEye
My cousin took a trip to India and came back thinking she may have had the flu, By that weeks end she had an ailment similar to Parkinsons's desease. She has never got better.
These third world countries are life threatning to only some people, others come back okay. Personally I'll take my chances and stay in the good old USA.
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posted on
07/13/2005 8:02:04 PM PDT
by
No Spin
(The truth will come out someday)
To: cyborg
so maybe the mindless lefty position of banning DDT came back to bite (no pun intended) a mindless lefty?
I think I just figured out how we can get the left to support bringing back DDT to fight malaria: Transfer the entire NYT staff to africa and have them live in huts next to a swamp for an entire year. Within a week there would be daily editorials calling for mass production and application of DDT in africa.
To: MarkeyD
To: MarkeyD
Your symptoms were like my brothers. It killed him 20 years ago.
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posted on
07/13/2005 8:51:26 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: MarkeyD
When I was trekking in Nepal about 10 years ago, 2 Brits contracted cerebral meningitis. One died, and the other made it back to Kathmandu for treatment.
A lot of Westerners get sick and/or die in these third world countries. I've known of people expiring from altitude sickness (2 while I was up in the Nepal Himalaya), rabies, one guy nearly died on me from food poisoning/dehydration in SE Asia, etc.
Get your vaccinations, go slow, and wash your hands.
Glad you recovered.
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posted on
07/13/2005 9:14:17 PM PDT
by
angkor
To: cmsgop
Maybe she got it from her brother.
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posted on
07/13/2005 9:19:19 PM PDT
by
aynrandfreak
(When can we stop pretending that the Left doesn't by and large hate America?)
To: aynrandfreak
Maybe some of the blood escaped from the blood pendant?
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posted on
07/13/2005 9:19:50 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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